Review: PC-BSD 1.3

June 5, 2007 — Nikesh

A BSD-based alternative to Windows on the desktop…

PC-BSD should make an interesting change for two main reasons. Firstly, it uses a BSD kernel, as opposed to the Linux kernel used in distributions such as Debian and Slackware. Secondly, its main method of installing new programs seems to be closer to that of Windows than apt. So, let’s see if its claims of user friendliness are accurate.